July 2013
And now for your patently obvious rhetorical question of the day
Courtesy NetRightDaily: “If Republicans oppose Obamacare, why do they keep voting to fund it?” Of course, NRD doesn’t necessarily treat the question as rhetorical. After all, a column that poses the question and then simply posts a smirking emoticon giving teabaggers the finger isn’t going to fill space. But we know they probably would if they could. Instead, they explore the question a bit, even taking the tack of pretending
“1%: Average Annual Economic Growth Under Obama”
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for! To totally screw everything and sink the country, through our narcissistic, Gen X government, into a mirror of our own entitlement-riddled, faux esteem-bathed souls. Congrats, Hope and Changers! Thank you, GOP establican status quo statists! In the decade from 1981 to 1990, according to the BEA, average annual growth in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 3.36 percent. In the decade from
Good News: once again, the TEA Party has “peaked,” and Hillary will be our next President
I know this because I read the political media. And if you can’t trust the political media, whom can you trust? First, National Journal, which has become the Queen of GOP concern trolls (the King being either Jennifer Rubin or the entirety of the GOP establishment, depending on who you ask), with one of its bi-monthly stories suggesting the waning of the TEA Party and its influence. Framed as a
Obama loves him some middle-class [Darleen Click]
He just feels they have no business being in business. The New York Times reports that President Obama is reviving an old proposal to lower the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent (and 25 percent for manufacturers). Obama’s push to lower the corporate tax rate to 28 percent comes less than a year after he raised the top individual income tax rate, paid by many small businesses,
Cycles of History, an objective correlative
I call this one, “Hope and change.” For the irony. (h/t nr, who points out that you should pay special attention to 23:07, with ear toward Mike Lee and the continuing resolution plan)
American Patriot files: “Montana AG denies all media requests to ID those with concealed carry weapons permits”
Somebody out there in Big Sky country should buy this dude a steak and a beer: Montana’s Attorney General Tim Fox has taken a stand against revealing the identities of concealed weapon permit holders. All 50 states now have laws permitting qualified individuals to own and carry concealed firearms. But emotions have flared over identifying all those as a class. A firestorm of controversy erupted last winter when a suburban
a quick note on tequila
Sometimes, if you’re in the proper state of mind, tequila can relax you to the point where you fall asleep near bolt upright, hitting the bridge of your nose on a table edge once gravity catches up to your feat, and then not waking up until hours later, when your wife finds you there on the floor, a small smile having crept across that part of your face not caked
RACIST OBSERVATION OF THE DAY: “Urban Violence Summit Erupts in Violence”
Kevin Jackson, inauthentic and self-hating Black: It should be no surprise that on the day that Rahm Emanuel hosted a group of black frauds claiming to care about “urban violence” that Chicago would oblige with 9 shootings. Is that so? Was Mr Jackson so busy shufflin’ and kowtowin’ to the Man that he missed the lesson in his (most likely) white man school differentiating causation with causality? Look: we have
“Obama’s rogue EPA makes an end-around Congress”
Well, as I noted earlier today, this idea that the EPA is making an end-run around Congress is a bit misleading: Congress granted the executive power to create a kind of Executive Branch quasi-legislative apparatus; and the House has the power of the purse available to it to rein in these rogue agencies by slashing their funding. The problem is — and I’m going to try to put this delicately